СТИСЛИЙ ПЕРЕКАЗ ТЕКСТУ English has become aworld language. People from different countries and parts of the world use it to communicate with each other. English is one of the languages of theUnited Nations and the European Union. It is the language of computers, science, industry, business, education, medicine, music, film, sport, travel and tourism. So you will need English in your life and work. You will need it when you meet people from other countries or to understand the latest hits and computer games and you will noed it if you want to become a rock star, a computer expert, a shop saistant, a pilot, a tourist guide, an engineer, a taxi driver, a businesswoman, an actor, an athlete, a teacher, a scientist, a footballer, a doctor, a waitress or a ship captain The language that has the greatest number:of people who speak it as their mother tongue is Chinese. English is number two. It is the mother tongue of 400 million people in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and parts of the Caribbean. But this is not the whole story. If we put together the number of native speakers of English and those who speak it as their second language in countries like India, Pakistan or South Africa, for examplo, as well as those who learn it at school and speak it as a foreign language all over the world, English is a clear winner. Over one billion people in the world or 20% of the world population speak English. You are one of them.
